Dish or Direct TV?

A question for Direct TV users - does anyone full-time with no Direct TV home contract/ setup?

I am Full Time since Oct. 1999 and have been a DTV customer since 93-94.
DTV has the location of my HR34, HR23, H21, and H25 all of them inside the MH, as being at my mailing address.

And none of them have been closer then 5 miles from that address. :)
I don't get locals from DTV. But I do get the E & W DNS stations.
I do get over 24 local stations OTA from my Batwing.

Sign up with them using your mailing address.
Which should be your domicile for all mail, plates, drivers license, insurance etc.

newman fulltimer wrote:
Dish has the option of no contract so you can stop or drop when you want.you own the equipment but they cover warrenty on it so no rv fees when you want it in the rv

X2-I like no contract.

I have Dish in my sticks n' bricks. Someone mentioned transferring their receiver from home to their camper each time. Dishanywhere saves doing that.
I've got a sling (one time charge) when I'm traveling in the 5er. I've downloaded Dishanywhere and use this wherever I am. No extra monthly charges.
The hopper is an additional monthly charge although, it does have a lot of features.
Also, Dish now has a new receiver that has a sling built into the receiver for your sticks n' bricks.

Double Post

Had DISH at home. Found out after we got it that Fox and either ABC or NBC were not available. As we were locked in for 2 years we were out of luck. Suggest you ask what, if any, channels you'll NOT have. 23 months later, we dropped DISH.

PawPaw_n_Gram wrote:
A question for Direct TV users - does anyone full-time with no Direct TV home contract/ setup?

You have to have some sort of home base address. We use our home address even tho we're almost never there as the Service address, but our billing address is thru the Good Sam Mail Forwarding service. To get the Distant Network Service is really easy. Fill out their form, include a copy of your RV reg and agree to pay the additional fee. We've had the DNS's for approx 3 years now. If you record any network shows on a regular basis the DNS works great.

PawPaw_n_Gram wrote:

NC Hauler wrote:
For a dual set up, someone at home and a separate in the rig plan, you stated Dish is the way to go....I have direct TV and use the receivers from my home in my rig.

Then your situation doesn't apply to what I said in my post.

If you have Dish at home - using Dish on the road is cheaper and better.

If you have Direct at home - using Direct on the road is cheaper and better.

However, if you are like a lot of people, including me, and have a land-line cable provider at home - Dish no-contract is the best/ cheapest option in my opinion.

I was only referring to your earlier post when you stated if at home and on the road, Dish is the way to go...I merely stated that you can do the same thing with DirecTV that one could with Dish. Dish also doesn't offer all the programming that Direct TV does, it's easily researched by seeing what Dish offers and compare to what Direct TV offers...

"A question for Direct TV users - does anyone full-time with no Direct TV home contract/ setup?"

Directv has a Distant Network Services offering for RVs. You get LA or NY locals and it work everywhere. You have to file paper work for the RV and pay a small additional fee.

https://support.directv.com/app/answers/detail/a_id/2757/

and more

https://support.directv.com/app/answers/detail/a_id/1825/kw/directv%20for%20a%20rv

Chris

PawPaw_n_Gram wrote:

NC Hauler wrote:
For a dual set up, someone at home and a separate in the rig plan, you stated Dish is the way to go....I have direct TV and use the receivers from my home in my rig.

Then your situation doesn't apply to what I said in my post.

If you have Dish at home - using Dish on the road is cheaper and better.

If you have Direct at home - using Direct on the road is cheaper and better.

However, if you are like a lot of people, including me, and have a land-line cable provider at home - Dish no-contract is the best/ cheapest option in my opinion.

No land line...best thing we EVER gave up....no solicitors calling since we went with cell phones...and in the long run a lot cheaper...


and as stated above...I had Dish before and do 99% of our camping in the mountains...more than several times, couldn't "shoot" over the mountains and trees in some areas...you aim higher for Direct...have never had an issue getting out of a valley over the mountains or trees....don't do much camping on "flat land", so I opted for Direct TV.

psford wrote:
Not sure about the 200 mile range, I have gotten local channels as far away as Phoenix ,Az , 700 miles from home, finally lost the locals when we got to Tombstone area 850 miles from home.

It is not really a range thing.

You get local channels from a 'spot beam' transmitted from the satellite. That beam footprint is usually about 400-500 miles in a near circular pattern. Its kind of like shining a flashlight on a big beach ball. You have to be in the lighted area to receive those 'local channels'.

There is not a separate spot beam for every location. People living 150 miles from me are in the same spot beam coverage as I am.

If your home zip code is in the center of that beam - then 200-250 miles away, you normally lose local channels. If your home is near the edges of the coverage - you might lose locals 80 miles from home in one direction and 400 miles from home in the opposite direction.

Spot beams coverages out in the unpopulated areas of the nation - mostly out west - are a bit larger to lower the cost for the satellite coverage. So you could easily get more range.

psford wrote:
The one thing I do know is that my friend that I camp with in Montana every summer has a much more difficult time getting Dish reception then I do with Direct for whatever reasons. I point mine somewhat south easterly ,and I got a signal.

As mentioned above - it is a factor of satellite position. The Direct satellites are apparently higher above the horizon than the Dish satellites. The closer to the horizon, the easier it is to have a signal blocked by trees, mountains, the next rig over in the campground, etc.

I didn't know that - but will be something to consider if I decide to spend a lot of time far north.

A question for Direct TV users - does anyone full-time with no Direct TV home contract/ setup?